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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

With few natural resources and a lack of major incumbent industry to gravitate towards, Estonia was forced to be entrepreneurial after emerging from Soviet Union occupation in 1991. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. An entrepreneurial nation.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “Then get out of our stock.”

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business Review

Higher pay throughout the industry helped lead to more sales, creating a virtuous cycle of growth and prosperity. The Economy in 2018. Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows.

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